PODCAST · business
Building And Growing
by Lucas Calleja
Lucas interviews founders and operators to provide the community with key insights about building and growing during difficult economic times.
Episodes
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#97 - Patient capital: the growing role of family offices and physical assets
About Jamie BullmanJamie is a co-founder and Managing Director of Dogfox Consulting, a corporate finance consultancy that works alongside founders and management teams to help them raise capital.About Dogfox ConsultingDogfox works as an embedded part of the client's team, getting hands-on to make...
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#96 - Rebuilding LATAM construction software through an AI-driven ERP
About Lucas GlustmanLucas Glustman is co-founder and CEO of Lebane, the AI-powered management platform for real estate developers and construction companies. Before Lebane he built his career in fintech: he founded Flimper, which he sold to dLocal's management, then as VP of Business Development...
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#95 - Leveraging AI to build an intelligent operating system for retirement and wealth providers
About Michael Watkins Michael Watkins is an internationally recognised leader in pensions, savings, and retirement technology, with more than two decades of experience spanning operations, product, governance, and technology. He has built, launched, scaled, and sold award-winning platforms across...
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#94 - Transforming health and safety performance in high risk businesses
About Matthew Taylor Matthew Taylor is a seasoned business leader and transformation specialist with more than two decades of experience in high-risk industries. He is known for guiding organizations through complex challenges, enhancing safety, building stronger systems, and unlocking…
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#93 - Building institutional grade tokenisation infrastructure
About Matt OngMatt is the CEO and Founder of Ctrl Alt. Matt spent the first part of his career in investment banking, working across fund structuring, alternative investments and trading at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. Drawing on this experience, Matt has developed extensive knowledge of...
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#92 - Transforming auditing for the modern era
About IanIan Mitchell began his entrepreneurial journey in a modest double garage in East London, with little capital and while still recovering from a serious car accident. Despite the challenging start, he built a business that grew to employ over 1,000 people and earned multiple awards for...
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#91 - Seed strappping to life changing outcomes
🎙️ Matt Williamson founded Vizzly (acquired by WPP) to help B2B SaaS companies build customer-facing analytics dashboards quickly, without compromising on flexibility. Traditional embedded analytics solutions were rigid and slow, forcing companies to choose between speed-to-market through…
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#90 - Reshaping GTM teams through AI-driven revenue operations
About Lewis Chawko Lewis Chawko is the founder of RevOps Consulting, with a unique journey from sales to revenue operations expertise. Starting as an SDR and progressing to AE, Lewis discovered his passion for operational problem-solving and self-taught essential RevOps tools in his free time. He...
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#89: Diving into franchising: systems, growth and accounting essentials
About Phil Mowat With over 15 years in franchising, Phil joined Ashtons Franchise Consulting in 2019. As the first point of contact for new clients, Phil assesses their needs and creates tailored franchise development plans, then delivers franchise development work to help business owners turn...
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#88 - Delivering mega projects across the Middle East
🌍 Kostas Dimitros, a Greek senior professional in the construction industry with over 22 years of experience in the Middle East, shares his journey from Athens to Dubai. Kostas has worked with renowned companies such as Parsons, Bechtel, and Kerzner, delivering mega projects, developing...
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#87 - Energy transition: rebuilding the grid for renewables
About Paul Stefiszyn Paul Stefiszyn is a partner in ESP Consulting and an expert in electricity markets, energy trading, and risk management, with 25 years’ experience in industry and consulting in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and North America. Paul’s recent work has focused on...
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#86 - Building an international entrepreneurship hub in Miami
About Etienne Gillard Solutions-focused entrepreneur and investor with over 25 years of experience in the financial services, professional development, and training sectors. Etienne is a well-experienced investor, technology entrepreneur (Founder 3x), and senior business leader (CEO 2x) with...
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#85 - Digitizing construction in Latin America
About Roberto Arroyo Roberto Arroyo is an Ecuadorian and French entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in the construction industry. As the founder, CEO, and Chairman of Construex, the fastest-growing and largest Construction Marketplace in Latin America boasting over one million…
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#84 - Branding unwrapped: diving into audience-driven marketing and brand strategy
About Becky Matheson With two decades of digital performance expertise, Becky is now the CEO and partner at Wrapped Agency. She collaborates with CEOs and senior leaders to unlock new opportunities for business growth. Leading the Wrapped team, Becky ensures that all performance work is...
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#83 - Improving health and safety and risk management outcomes through the downstream model
About Adam Wilkinson Adam Wilkinson has spent the last 15 years working across a range of industries in Health, Safety and Environmental HSE Management. After 10 years with the world’s biggest real-estate firm, CBRE, he is currently in post as the group Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental...
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#82 - ConstructionTech: investing to solve problems in Sustainability, Productivity and Urbanization
About Juan Nieto Juan Nieto is Founder & General Partner at Zacua Ventures. Juan previously worked as a ConTech investor for CEMEX CVC unit since 2018, where he developed Asia Pacific investment strategy, and set up the Shanghai Office in 2019. Prior to this, Juan worked as an alternative asset...
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#81 - Accelerating learning and development in the health and safety industry
About Paul Clark As the Founder and Chairman of HSE Global Series, Paul is passionate about creating and delivering high-quality content and engagement services for the health, safety, and environment (HSE) industry. With over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, and leadership, Paul has a...
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#80 - Fleet intelligence: optimising vehicle and driver data to improve asset utilisation
About iUGO iUGO specializes in tracking two essential types of data for fleets: vehicle data and driver data, with the aim of optimizing operations and improving fleet utilization. By leveraging this data, we ensure the safety of riders and drivers, enhance the speed of delivery, and elevate the...
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#79 - Medical tourism in Turkey: more than just hair transplants
Alkin Akarslan, founder of Laranja and Global Golden Key, dicsusses medical tourism in Turkey and how to access international residency and citizenship opportunities. Laranja founded in 2014 provides medical tourism marketing & management support for select hospitals, small & mid size health care...
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#78 - Helping businesses go digital with their payment processes
About Colm Lyon Colm Lyon is CEO and founder of fire.com – a digital payments business. He is one of Europe’s leading payments and fintech entrepreneurs. With a career spanning more than 30 years, Colm has built payment businesses, led change across the industry and supported the wider business...
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#77 - Redefining dental care through AI and remote monitoring
About Dr. Cherif Massoud Dr. Cherif Massoud is a key figure in dental and orthodontic care. He believes in leveraging technology to enhance the overall dental experience, making it better for patients and practitioners alike. As the CEO of BASMA.COM, Dr. Massoud focuses on equipping dentists and...
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#76 - Boxing, music & football: building a media business from scratch
Dan Stuart, known by his nickname 'Savage Dan', manages media relations for Boxxer, works closely with Chelsea FC and is owner of Jukebox Studios (where this podcast is filmed). Dan collaborated with WSTRN to produce their hit single In2, which peaked at number four in the UK charts.
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#75 - Transforming commercial property management through cloud and automation
About Sam Howie Sam Howie, originally from New Zealand, is the Director of Enterprise Sales at Re-Leased, a pioneering cloud-based property management platform established in 2012. Sam was the first person on the ground for Re-Leased in the United Kingdom and since moving to London with his wife…
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#74 - A day in the life of a hotel manager
About Yogesh Juneja Yogesh Juneja, Hotel Manager at the Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire, has worked in hospitality for more than twenty years across six countries. Yogesh oversees all aspects of the hotel's operations, ensuring unparalleled luxury and unforgettable experiences for every guest. About...
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#73 - A journey from boxing to performance coaching - fighting for positive outcomes
Chris graduated from the London School of Economics and began a promising career in the International Development sector before stepping away to take an opportunity to become a professional boxer at the age of 24. Retiring from the ring as an undefeated professional in 2016, Chris went on to...
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#72 - Simplifying and automating workforce management
About Roderick Schneider Roderick Schneider is the Chief Operating Officer of Workforce.com, where the mission is to eliminate employment friction for shift and hourly workers, and reduce the global unemployment rate. Roderick has been helping front line businesses navigate tough situations since...
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#71 - Combating inflation and currency depreciation in emerging markets
About Emre Ertan Before Cenoa, Emre was Chief Product Officer / and interim CTO at Getir, (a Sequoia-backed global ultra-fast delivery company, valued at ~$12B). During his tenure, Getir grew around 20x. He had several product director/manager roles in Silicon Valley’s fast-growth companies such…
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#70 - Building a timeless brand and effective marketing strategy
Eva Luitsz, Co-Founder of Studio Melrose LTD, has over 7 years of dedicated expertise in the dynamic field of marketing. Eva specialises in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), social media management, content creation, and strategic planning. Multi-channel testing is the heart of marketing and…
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#69 - Diving into the world of insurtech
🚀 Insurtechs: the typically paper and process driven insurance industry sprouted insurtechs as a result of advances in technology, the internet of things (e.g. FloodFlash’s water level sensor) and improved data processing capabilities (e.g. Flock's leverage of telematics to provide quotes)....
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#68 - Private wealth management: building a wealth framework like successful entrepreneurs
Lewis is a Director at Rothschild & Co Wealth Management. Prior to joining Rothschild & Co in 2014, he began his career in the Wealth Management department at Barclays, having graduated from the University of Warwick with a BSc in Economics. He has worked in London and New York over the past…
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#67 - Year In Review 2023: pathways towards profitability, real-time data and quality content
As the year comes to an end, Lucas Calleja who normally hosts the podcast, stepped into the guest's seat and was joined by James Horrax who kindly hosted the podcast! They discussed key developments and items that were brought up by guests. Here are three key themes from 2023 that we reflected…
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#66 - International expansion and breaking into the Italian market
Andrea Guzzoni is a serial entrepreneur and investor: Founder and Chairman of easyHire, Andrea invests and advises early-stage startups, focusing on SEIS-EIS UK-based companies and tech ventures in emerging markets. After building up international experience across Milan, London, Australia,...
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#65 - Accelerating the best startups in the Web3 space
Outlier Ventures is the global leading Web3 accelerator, supporting founders building on layer one and layer two protocols with a portfolio of over 270 companies. During its Basecamp accelerator program, Outlier Ventures partners with global industry protocol leaders, including Aptos, NEAR, and...
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#64 - Investing in emerging markets: diving into opportunity and risk
Enis and Lucas discuss the opportunities and risks associated with investing in emerging markets. Enis Hulli is a General Partner at 500. Educated as an engineer he has a firm grasp of the technological aspect of the startup world and the ambition and knowledge to see the global potential in the...
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#63 - Lessons of rapid International scaling: sales funnels, Rev Ops and expansion planning
Melvin Chen is an investor and serial entrepreneur, having worked across multiple sectors in the investment and scale up technology industries including Goldman Sachs, Terra Firma and Samena Capital working on financing, StarLake where he advised firms expanding to and raising money from Asia...
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#62 - Catastrophe cover: how FloodFlash is leading the parametric boom
About FloodFlash FloodFlash is a multi-award-winning insurance technology company at the forefront of the parametric insurance movement. Launched in the UK 2019 and in the US in 2022, their rapid-payout flood product provides coverage to businesses, corporates and municipalities that struggle to...
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#61 - Scaling e-commerce businesses: a deep dive into the agency model
Kyle is the Co-Founder of pb+j, an award-winning eCommerce growth agency, named after a sandwich. Over the past decade, he alongside his Co-Founder Tom, and a crew of Jammers, have helped 100's of mid-market, founder-led DTC brands pour gasoline on the fire of their first $1mil+ to reach new...
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#60 - Simplifying the world of managing employee benefits
Kota is building a platform to help companies manage employee benefits and insurance. Issuing benefits to employees involves a magnitude of tools that are often offline and manual, making it difficult for both HR teams and new employees! Kota can offer cover across 30 countries in Europe to...
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#59 - Democratising access to premium publishing and editorial coverage
About Adrian Fagerlund As Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder of Linkby, Adrian oversees global business development, sales, and revenue growth across its key markets of Australia, US, UK, Canada and SEA. He leads Linkby’s global sales team and is passionate about building and fostering...
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#58 - Data driven pricing, product ops and building strong systems infrastructure
Ben's journey began at NatWest, in treasury & capital management. He then ventured into the fast-paced realm of RBS' investment bank, focusing on the intricate world of interest & FX risk management and became a corporate bank director, where he led the banking relationships with enterprise and…
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#57 - Scaling up side hustles and passion projects
David Cava is an AI engineering manager and a musician and song writer. Even though he studied a Master in Aerospace Engineering (Imperial College), music is his guilty pleasure. Right after his master's he started travelling to Miami while working as an engineer in London, to write with some of...
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#56 - Emerging markets FX: a new wholesale marketplace
About AbbeyCross AbbeyCross is developing a wholesale marketplace to improve transparency, compliance, pricing, and service levels for payments to Emerging Market (EM) countries. Historically, a lack of relevant market data and a fragmented and inefficient wholesale market has meant that margins...
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#55 - Shares: the story of building a social investment app
Harjas and Lucas discuss the story behind Shares, a social investment app. Shares aims to connect users with their existing network and bridge the education gap in investing, by allowing them to communicate and share insights about their investment decisions within the app. Harjas discusses how...
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#54 - Connecting founders to the right leaders to help start-ups and scale-ups win
Tom and Lucas discuss the importance of leadership hires to help start-ups and scale-ups win. Startups often struggle with slow or inaccurate executive search campaigns that can take 120 days to close plus on average in Europe another 90 days to get the person in a seat, at times with the wrong...
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#53 - Building a strong legal foundation to optimise success
Nicola and Lucas discuss the importance of startups building a strong legal foundation, a team which complements each other and what investors look for from startups from a governance perspective. About Nicola McConville Nicola is a Partner in Mishcon de Reya’s Corporate Department with…
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#52 - The intersection between VC, sales and partnerships
Ken and Lucas discuss Ken’s experience working in commercial roles at fintechs and banks, his current focus of building a VC for SaaStock and the intersection between VC, sales and partnerships. About Ken Thomas Ken is a New Yorker building a venture capital fund here in London. He also helps...
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#51 - Leveraging telematics to reduce risk and promote safer driving
About Adheeb Rifdi Adheeb is a sales and revenue operations leader, having worked at multiple scale-ups including Flock and Mulesoft. At Flock, Adheeb initially led sales before aligning all revenue-generating functions towards company OKRs, while at Mulesoft in a revenue operations role. At...
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#50 - Consolidating and scaling advertising workflows through Smartly.io
About Sarah Hiraki As Smartly.io’s Head of Creative for EMEA & APAC, Sarah collaborates with the world’s biggest advertisers to drive creative innovation and #worksmartly to reach audiences with more agile, meaningful and effective ads. At Smartly, she is known for her work with clients on short...
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#49 - Building a competitive advantage by investing in leadership development and effective L&D programs
Ben Stocken Ben is the founder and Managing Director of West Peak. His work over the last 20 years has enabled teams and businesses to achieve far more than they believed was possible before they met him. His background as an adventurer, performance coach for England Rugby and subsequent people…
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#48 - A day in the life of a content creator: navigating deliverables, authenticity and partnerships
Eva Piskadlo is a lifestyle Influencer and Blogger based in London. Eva has worked with an array of luxury hotels and restaurants worldwide, including the Edition Hotel group, The Mandarin Oriental, Belmond Hotel Group, The Four Seasons, The Royal Mansour and MGM Hotels. She has also partnered…
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Lucas interviews founders and operators to provide the community with key insights about building and growing during difficult economic times.
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